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Heuristics in technoscientific thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

Michael E. Gorman
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442 [email protected] repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu

Abstract

This review of Gigerenzer, Todd, and the ABC Research Group's Simple heuristics that make us smart focuses on the role of heuristics in discovery, invention, and hypothesis-testing and concludes with a comment on the role of heuristics in population growth.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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